Tag Archives: Plan

Like the Sunrise

Posted on December 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Like the Sunriseby Michael DoyleIt is beautiful when you findThat the one who is on your mindHas been waiting for you.Maybe it’s a sign that it’s true.That love is like the sunrise,As it’s captured in your eyes,Like a message coming … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amazing God, Beautiful, Destiny, Find, Honest, Love, Man, Meant To Be, Message, Mind, Plain, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Sign, Star-Crossed Lovers, Steps, Streed, Sunrise, True, Understand, Wait, Woman | Leave a comment

Approaching Thanksgiving’s Love

Posted on November 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Approaching Thanksgiving’s Loveby Michael DoyleWe learn to talk just to talkUnder an accidental moonlight walk.Learning that maybe we love to talk,At least that is with whom we can really talk.Practicing lines of unnecessary lies,The kind that cut deep into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approach, Deep, Eyes, Faith, God, Gratitude, Jesus, Learn, Moonlight Walk, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Talk, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Love, Unnecessary Lies | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay First the Foundation of Humility

Posted on September 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” ~ Saint Augustine

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Clouds, Descend, Foundation, Humility, Plan, Rise, St. Augustine, Thought For the Day, Tower, Wish | Leave a comment

Making It Do

Posted on January 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Making It Doby Michael DoyleThe world’s painIs dipped in blueThinking I remember thatAbout me and youWalking in withMy life’s game faceIf you keep on running awayDoes it leave its traceMost of the living worldIs a bit under the weatherWe keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Behind, Better, Blind, Blue, Bound, Bribes, Game Face, Hard To See, Hope, Life, Living World, Making It Do, Me and You, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Remember, Running Away, Sound, Trace, Under the Weather, Walk, World, World's Pain | Leave a comment

A Tenderness of Hope

Posted on December 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Tenderness of Hopeby Michael DoyleWe live in a fast-paced society That is filled with such complexityThat it brings less than notorietyTo become overwhelmed by our anxietyStill, each of us chooses a mask to wearA smile of dignity as if … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Ask, Care, Cheeks, Choose, Complexity, Contemplation, Contentment, Cop, Denial, Depend, Dignity, Dream, Earth, Eyes, Faith, Faithfulness, Falls Apart, Falsity, Filfillment, Forced Grin, Friend, Heaven Above, Hide, Hope, Interpretation, Lies, Life's Bargain, Love, Mask, Notoriety, Overwhelm, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Real, Relieve, Seem, Smile, Society, Steal, Tainted Mask, Tenderness, Time and Again, Torn and Bleeding Hearts, Truth, Wear | Leave a comment

Several Levels From Myself

Posted on December 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Several Levels From Myselfby Michael DoyleLiving lifeSeveral levels from myselfI usually have my noseStuck in a book from a shelfYou were a swirl of perfectionWithout a flaw in detectionWhat was I supposed to doBut to fall madly in love with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adrift, Answer, Ars, Being With You, Belong, Book, Certain, Chaos, Christmas Serenade, Detection, Done, Doubt, Dreamy Eyes, Flaw, Hello, Hint, Hope, Living Life, Look Out, Love, Making, Near, Nose, Nothing Better, Path of God, Perfection, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Risk, Self, Several Levels, Shift, Storms, Swirl, Taking, The one, Together | Leave a comment

Fiery Cinders

Posted on September 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Fiery Cindersby Michael DoyleHourglass sands spell tales of brutalityWhispering that most pirates keep their humanityThat is until they can only no longer see fitWhich mostly comes down to the matter of profitIn these moments, and when it’s a Hell of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Bravado, Brutality, Captain, cinder, Dead Men, Die, Escape, Fiery Cinders, Fit, Hell, Hourglass Sands, Humanity, Jolly Rogers, Last Man, Less-Than-Clever, Loose Lips, Moments, Never, Pirates, Plan, Plundering Pirates, Poetry and Poems, Prize, Profit, Sea, Strictly Logic, Survive, Tale, Tales, Watch Change, Whisper, Witnessing Eyes | Leave a comment

First Principles: When We Are Planning For Posterity, We Ought To Remember That Virtue Is Not Hereditary

Posted on July 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Common Sense, First Principles, Heredictary, Ought, Plan, Posterity, Remember, Thomas Paine, Virtue | Leave a comment

Road Trips With My Daughters 2024

Posted on July 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Road Trips With My Daughters 2024by Michael DoyleThere’s a sort of magic I learned as I grewThat traveling with children reveals anewThe wonders and enchantments there are to findAlong with the souvenirs that serve to remindOne of the places gone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2024, Adventure, Beach, Believe, Bliss, Children, Creativity, Daughters, Dinner, Families, Glory, Growth, Happiness, Hours, Imagination, Ingenuity, Innovation, Investment, Lake Erie, Mage, Memories, Michigan, Perfection, Place, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Road Trip, Souvenirs, Story, Summer's Sun, Sunset, The Henry Ford, Travel, Understand, Wonders | Leave a comment

Tithemi

Posted on July 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tithemiby Michael DoyleAs citizens of the kingdom and our nationWe live with tension and fascinationWalking tall in our communityWe live the love of God’s good familyBy doing this, we take our Christian cueAs we study and find God’s good cluesStarting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adhere, Align, Anchored, Appeal, Bible, Christ's Ambassaodrs, Christian Cue, Christianity, Citzens, Community, Complexity, Debt, Devil's Schemes, Divine, Earth, Faith, Family, Fascination, Forgiveness, God, Good Conscience, Healing Grace, Hearts and Heads, Humanity, Immorality, Jesus, Kingdom, Love, Meaning, Mirror, Nation, Patient, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Rebellion, Seal, Shining Light, Study, Tension, Tithemi, Toxciity, Unafraid, Understood, Walking Tall | Leave a comment